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Level-Up! offers payment scheme for free online game

By Alexander Villafania
INQUIRER.net
Last updated 06:57am (Mla time) 01/12/2007


VIDEO game publisher Level-Up! will start offering a local payment scheme for players of the free online multiplayer role-playing game Silk Road Online (SRO), a game developed and hosted by Korean firm Joymax in their native country.

Level-Up! will receive payment through its top-up cards, usually used to buy play cards and virtual items for its other online games, such as Ragnarok Online, RF Online and ROSE Online.

Since SRO is a free-to-play online game, the top-up cards would largely be used to pay for virtual items, particularly the currency called silk.

Five hundred pesos in the top-up card will be able to buy 100 silk in SRO.

This would be the first time that Level-Up! Accepts payment for a game that it does not widely distribute or host in the Philippines.

SRO’s free client can be downloaded from its website ( http://www.silkroadonline.net). It is mainly in English but has a Korean version.

It is also hosted in an international server allowing players from other countries to play againts each other.

Level-Up! Chief Operation Officer Sheila Paul said in an interview that the company found out the popularity of SRO after a survey of Internet cafes. After which, they approached developer Joymax, who said that there are about 100,000 registered players from the Philippines.

“It was such a popular game that we wanted to provide a system for players here to buy items. It’ll also be a better alternative since the credit card penetration in the Philippines is quite low and the prepaid card scheme is more prevalent,” Paul said.

On the other hand, Paul said the company is confident that it would not compete directly with the other games that they distribute in the Philippines since not all players would want to work on an international level.

Likewise, despite the free-to-play model, Paul said the cost of buying silk, which in turn buys virtual items in SRO, is higher than playing local games.

SRO is set in medieval Eurasia and revolved around the historical trade route called Silk Road. It is similar to most online role-playing games wherein characters need to level-up and upgrade weapons, armor and other items.

Once characters reach level 20, they could choose a specific “job” such as a hunter, thief or trader, with each having different attributes and characteristics.



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she_Berzerk wrote:Great news!
Mabuhay!

http://technology.inquirer.net/infotech/infotech/view_article.php?article_id=42970

Above is the original link.

Below is a copy-paste.


Level-Up! offers payment scheme for free online game

By Alexander Villafania
INQUIRER.net
Last updated 06:57am (Mla time) 01/12/2007


VIDEO game publisher Level-Up! will start offering a local payment scheme for players of the free online multiplayer role-playing game Silk Road Online (SRO), a game developed and hosted by Korean firm Joymax in their native country.

Level-Up! will receive payment through its top-up cards, usually used to buy play cards and virtual items for its other online games, such as Ragnarok Online, RF Online and ROSE Online.

Since SRO is a free-to-play online game, the top-up cards would largely be used to pay for virtual items, particularly the currency called silk.

Five hundred pesos in the top-up card will be able to buy 100 silk in SRO.

This would be the first time that Level-Up! Accepts payment for a game that it does not widely distribute or host in the Philippines.

SRO’s free client can be downloaded from its website ( http://www.silkroadonline.net). It is mainly in English but has a Korean version.

It is also hosted in an international server allowing players from other countries to play againts each other.

Level-Up! Chief Operation Officer Sheila Paul said in an interview that the company found out the popularity of SRO after a survey of Internet cafes. After which, they approached developer Joymax, who said that there are about 100,000 registered players from the Philippines.

“It was such a popular game that we wanted to provide a system for players here to buy items. It’ll also be a better alternative since the credit card penetration in the Philippines is quite low and the prepaid card scheme is more prevalent,” Paul said.

On the other hand, Paul said the company is confident that it would not compete directly with the other games that they distribute in the Philippines since not all players would want to work on an international level.

Likewise, despite the free-to-play model, Paul said the cost of buying silk, which in turn buys virtual items in SRO, is higher than playing local games.

SRO is set in medieval Eurasia and revolved around the historical trade route called Silk Road. It is similar to most online role-playing games wherein characters need to level-up and upgrade weapons, armor and other items.

Once characters reach level 20, they could choose a specific “job” such as a hunter, thief or trader, with each having different attributes and characteristics.



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Thanks for the info!

Too bad there's no news as too when their going to launch the service!

Great news for them.

indeed a good news.. i hope they can distribute the cards to all 3 islands as soon as it will open..

yea, cool for philippine players

It is mainly in English

english???, it's like koreanglish

nice info!!

i'm looking forward for when the service release is...

good idea, at least most of my guildies can avail these service (if its really going to lunch).

mabuhay!

and now they can stop asking me for silk

go buy ur own

OMG, SRO sounds so cool...

oh where can i download this game?

YAY!!! so happy!!!^___^ Now all of us in guild can have silk

Ooooppppssss..... A big Misunderstanding... Sorry...

Nave47 wrote:THIS MUST NOT HAPPEN!!!! WHAT ABOUT MY CHAR HERE IN ISRO!!!!!! NOOOOO!!!!! WTF!!!!!!!!! NOOOOO!!!!!!!! but the good side is... NO LAGSS AND BAD SERVER TRAFFIC HURRAY!!!!! But still NOOOO!!!!!!!!
PInoy server be like a TURK ONLY SERVER WHERE ANYONE IS CURSING ANYONES MOTHER OR FAMILY unlike in ISRO pinoy players are respectfull(altleast some). BUT I WOULD LIKE A ACC TRANSFER IF THIS HAPPENS!!!! NOOOOO

edit : Good effect = Less Lag, Less Server Traffic, More Events(maybe like 3x,2x exp), Good customer Support.

Bad effect = More Cursing, More Noobs, More time of my life to waste,

I want a ACCOUNT TRANSFER D*** IT.

Edit again : Sorry for Commenting like SpiritPower.

DUDE Chill

Silkroadonline.net wrote:lose beta service of Silkroad Online in Vietnamese language is in progress at the moment in Vietnam, and open service is planned for 9/14/2006. There may be a possibility of change in date, but the users in Vietnam, please take this into mind.

As mentioned few months ago, Vietnam IPs are scheduled to be blocked when open service begins in Vietnam. For a better service, please show your interest in the local service that will be supported in Vietnam language.

However, from now on, when a local language service is opened at another area, global service will continue to provide service without blocking the previous users using the service. Please remember this, and do not be confused.

so chill dude u wont be banned form ISRO
i think

My bad, this showed that I really didn't read the whole message. Good Work level-up games. now all of us can now buy silk...

well that was posted last september ^^
took me a while to dig it up

Yey... Now we can buy our won GTs and monkeys... SWEET

nice to see :) i have a bunch of pinoy friends that i'm sure will be glad for this news.

Great news for them

Happy to read this...

it is good new indeed, but when will this be released? I mean, are they out on market now? Haven't seen one yet>.< Looking forward to it

Any news about this? Haven't seen anything new in the levelup games website. I hope I can buy silk soon.

Karlos Vandango wrote:

Nave47 wrote:THIS MUST NOT HAPPEN!!!! WHAT ABOUT MY CHAR HERE IN ISRO!!!!!! NOOOOO!!!!! WTF!!!!!!!!! NOOOOO!!!!!!!! but the good side is... NO LAGSS AND BAD SERVER TRAFFIC HURRAY!!!!! But still NOOOO!!!!!!!!
PInoy server be like a TURK ONLY SERVER WHERE ANYONE IS CURSING ANYONES MOTHER OR FAMILY unlike in ISRO pinoy players are respectfull(altleast some). BUT I WOULD LIKE A ACC TRANSFER IF THIS HAPPENS!!!! NOOOOO

edit : Good effect = Less Lag, Less Server Traffic, More Events(maybe like 3x,2x exp), Good customer Support.

Bad effect = More Cursing, More Noobs, More time of my life to waste,

I want a ACCOUNT TRANSFER D*** IT.

Edit again : Sorry for Commenting like SpiritPower.

DUDE Chill

Silkroadonline.net wrote:lose beta service of Silkroad Online in Vietnamese language is in progress at the moment in Vietnam, and open service is planned for 9/14/2006. There may be a possibility of change in date, but the users in Vietnam, please take this into mind.

As mentioned few months ago, Vietnam IPs are scheduled to be blocked when open service begins in Vietnam. For a better service, please show your interest in the local service that will be supported in Vietnam language.

However, from now on, when a local language service is opened at another area, global service will continue to provide service without blocking the previous users using the service. Please remember this, and do not be confused.

so chill dude u wont be banned form ISRO
i think

dude, if they not gonna ban them they better unban chinese, japanese and korean, fck! i want japanese friends! and korean, and chinese fck, from when is japan, korea and china not INTERNATIONAL? r they afraid they'd all go playin iSRO? cos it rox, cos everyone wants to meet a **** from a place half the world away, u know, at least i do

LOL. No one is going to be banned from SRO since according to the news we're still going to use the iSRO servers to play the game. Level Up Games will just give us a way to purchase silk without using credit cards. They will be providing us with prepaid cards instead.

good news!!

metroAID wrote:good news!!

Maglinis ka ng kalsada.

mabuhay

Nave47 wrote:

metroAID wrote:good news!!

Maglinis ka ng kalsada.

tapos na. its game time.

metroAID wrote:

Nave47 wrote:

metroAID wrote:good news!!

Maglinis ka ng kalsada.

tapos na. its game time.

san mo na nilagay ung basura??? akin na lang plzzz

dude, if they not gonna ban them they better unban chinese, japanese and korean, fck! i want japanese friends! and korean, and chinese fck, from when is japan, korea and china not INTERNATIONAL?

dude they block cuz
*Korean players are 25%pro players,60%botters,5% gold farmers, 2% hackers, and 8% little kids going u momma fak
*Mainland Chinese cuz 85% run internet cafe and put idle pcs on gold farming so they can sell on ebay 14% botters 1% legit
*Japanese cause they rename coreans korean (K after the J in japan) back in 1930s)cuz they sux.

neone actually know when they goin to do this? I want a bunny when i start farming my bower T_T

noooo!

coz im greedy, im leet coz i have a looter! low level pinoy players can't oogle at my and my looter's presence. don't have to bend down to pick up 385 gold in caves.

lol! good news good news. this clears up rumors that there's gonna be a philippine IP block. it worried teh hell out of a lot of players. goes to show how international community is still FTW!